“Murder! Sir Harold MacMichael, Known as High Commissioner for Palestine, Wanted for Murder of 800 Refugees Drowned in the Black Sea on the Boat “Struma.”

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

circa

(Palestine)

1942

Broadside. Text in hebrew and English. With portrait

Sir Harold MacMichael, was the fifth High Commissioner for Palestine from 1938-44. He rigidly implemented the anti-Zionist policy of the 1939 White Paper (see lot above), refusing to admit to Palestine Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. The Struma was a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Rumania in February 1942. The British authorities refused to let it land in Palestine. On the ships return to Europe, it foundered in the Black Sea and 770 Jews were killed